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Ray Brown & The Whispers were a highly successful Australian rock band from 1964 to 1967. Led by singer Ray Brown, they ranked alongside The Easybeats, Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs and Normie Rowe as one of the most popular acts of the period. In 1964, the band played at 'The Bowl' a Sydney, NSW night club doing covers of popular songs such as "Shakin All Over".[citation needed]

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When I worked as a casual assistant projectionist at the Wintergarden theatre in
townsville, I operated the lighting backstage for the Ray Brown and The Whispers'
show in 1966. (the Wintergarden used to have live shows as well as movies). this
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Even when they didn't have time to write, the brothers were always prepared to
lend support, and the trio can be clearly heard accompanying Festival's Ray Brown & The Whispers (originally called The Nocturnes) on 'Too Late To Come ...

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They'd seen the success enjoyed not only by the Easybeats, who were their
godhead, but also Ray Brown and The Whispers, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, and
then the Masters Apprentices and the Twilights. And if Johnny Young could do it
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The Nocturnes started out, like so many of their peers, as Shadows-style instrumentalists, playing their twang around Kogarah, Sans Souci, and the southern suburbs of Sydney, before recruiting Mersey-sounding/Hurstville-born singer Ray Brown and renaming themselves The Whispers for a post-Beatles world...

While I would make no claims that this cover in any way, shape or form stacks up to the wicked Wilson Pickett's version, this Australian version packs a particular wallop nonetheless (mostly in the hot brass and fuzzed out guitar). Hailing from Sydney, The Whispers (not to be confused with the great US vocal group) began life as a surf/ instrumental group until those pesky Beatles changed everything, at which point they recruited the good looking / OK singing Ray Brown as lead singer.

Based in Sydney and operating from just 1964 to 1966, Ray Brown and The Whispers were a very popular beat and soul group both live and in the Australian charts. This 45 was their third release and the band's third No.

THE LONDON KNIGHTS - 'Go To Him'/'Dum Diddlee Dee' (Mike Records MK-4200) 1966
A certain amount of mystery surrounds this disc with some on-line sources suggesting that The London Knights were a group from Los Angeles. The latter information was probably taken from the liners of the CD release 'Hot Generation' that came out on Big Beat.

Hits and More 1965-1968 is the new greatest hits by Australian 60's group Ray Brown and The Whispers. In this CD it has the hits that they had back in the mid 60's like 20 Miles, Pride, Fool Fool Fool, In the Midnight Hour, Aint It Strange etc as well as the B sides, key album tracks and rear EP tracks.

Bobbie Thomas was originally the vocalist with Sydney band The Impacts formed in 1961. During 1962 the band changed their name to The Nocturnes and was mainly seen as an instrumental group playing at surf music scene venues around the southern seaside suburbs of Sydney.